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New to AE & Movie Creation
Hi there,
Some friends and i have recently shot some footage for a music video/montage of a friends band of ours. It was mostly shot in HD and also we had a few older cameras with different objects in front of the lens to give some nice effects. Basically, we’ve all been given the footage each on DVD and been asked to cut out our fav parts and pull together about 3-5 mins each of footage mixed together with weird and wonderful images/animation.Basically, i’m new to AE and have very little experince with primere. I can pick stuff up quite quickly and have a good few years experience with Flash, photoshop etc etc. All i’m really after is some advice for settings/ratio/pixel sizes etc for the movie and for images to import into the movie. It’s going to be widescreen and be available on dvd and also uploaded to something like youtube to be embedded into our website.
many thanks,
Nick Brookfield -
1 Reply
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Your bigger issue right now is how was that DVD made for you?
If it is a data DVD with video clips burned onto them as data you may be alright and don’t have to use Premiere at all. I assumed you wanted to use premiere to capture your footage. The other issue you may face in this direction is that you may not have the codec required to view and edit those clips in AE. But if the planets align and both those things go in your favor then you would copy the files to your hard drive first and then import them into AE.
If this DVD is what I’ll refer to as a “Set Top Playable” DVD meaning that it is formated for a set top DVD player then you really are in a bind. This is because at that point it becomes very time consuming and problematic to get the footage off the DVD. You have only two choices at that point. One is to try and use a DVD ripping program to selectively remove sections of the videos you see playing and save them as individual video clips. I’ve never been able to get this to work well and anyone else that know’s of a good program for doing this please speak up. The second option involves hooking up your DVD player’s video outputs to a capture card in your computer and capturing the footage directly into AE. I’ve never captured directly to AE but I know that AE added that feature in version 7.0. The only problem with that is that HD capture boards are expensive. Which brings up another question. Is this a standard definition DVD or a high definition DVD?
Please respond.
Nate
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